Challenges faced when working on Selenium

There are many.. ideally the the reason for asking this question is to know whether the candidate have really worked in selenium.Some of the challenges are:

 1. configuration challenges on different machines

 2. selenium's compatibility with browser versions like with FF20 is not supported with some web-driver versions.

 3. handling IE/chrome etc.

 4. popup handling

 5. Ajax handling

 6. security certificate handling

 7. frames

 8. date pick from calender.

 9. identifying locators

10. Maintain the scripts to work properly irrespective of new build

11.Diff to identify script has failed may be unable to locate the element or config issue(Browser upadted) if your framework is not able to catch issue.

12.If you are using xpath as a locator .writing xpath without using dynamic changing data ..I faced so many issues in Adobe CQ 5 (CMS) automation.

13. We use locators in script in such way that if new changes came also script should work.

Like using functions in Xapth

14. Tell that your framework has capability of showing where,how script has failed and show in th report.

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